| Daniel Evans played Charley. Julian Ovenden was Franklin. And . . . | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 02:40 am EDT 08/24/22 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 02:34 am EDT 08/24/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I have no doubt Daniel Radcliffe wants to do Merrily on Broadway - WaymanWong 12:08 am EDT 08/24/22 | |
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| . . . it seems to me that Charley is exactly the sort of role for which actors get nominated and sometimes win, with Evans being an example. Ovenden was not nominated. Admittedly, Damian Humbley was not nominated for the first incarnation of the Friedman production. Neither was Mark Umbers. There was some surprise about this at the time. Perhaps a problem with actors getting nominated for playing Charley is the question of category: lead or supporting/featured? And obviously Lonny Price was not nominated for a Tony, but the only Tony nomination for the original production went to Sondheim. The only Drama Desk nominations went to Sondheim. It looks like the Drama Desk decided not to give awards in 1995 for featured actor and actress in a musical. That may be why Adam Heller was not nominated, although some people who probably should have been in featured, had the categories been there, were nominated in leading categories. I would put Charley in supporting or featured. In 1990, both Victor Garber and David Garrison were nominated for Hayes awards as leading actor in a musical for the Arena Stage Merrily. Garrison won the award, in a tie with Scott Morgan for Children With Stones at the Source Theatre. David Eric played Charley in the 1983 Los Angeles production and won an L.A. Weekly award and a Drama-Logue award for his performance. All three leads — Kevin Gudahl (Franklin), Judy Kaplan (Mary), Frank Farrell (Charley) — in the 1985 Pegasus production in Chicago were nominated for Jefferson awards, which in those days were just generally for performance rather than having specific categories, and then there were a certain number of winners. I guess kind of like the Drama Desk awards in the early 1970s. Anyway, Kaplan won one of the awards. (And I just called Charley one of the three leads, while earlier I said that I would put the role in supporting or featured. It's that kind of role.) OK, enough research for tonight. |
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